Tag: mindfulness

  • Meditation provides insights Google cannot.

    Meditation provides insights Google cannot.

    Mmmmm… Yes, Google can’t answer all my questions. Actually, it can’t answer any of the most important ones. For these I must look within. Rather, no, I must listen within. I don’t mean listen to my mind, nor look into it. I wrote once, with uncanny insight, “Your body knows more about your spiritual well-being…

  • Be Mindful; Become Mindfulness: Awaken

    Be Mindful; Become Mindfulness: Awaken

    Be Mindful; Become Mindfulness:Awaken Be mindful of what you think;         thoughts will be spoken. Be mindful of what you speak;         words become action. Be mindful of what you do;         deeds express character. Become mindful of who you are;         see the fate you had created. Become mindful of the moment;         awaken to the possibility of now.…

  • Just say yes…

    Just say yes…

    Deep in my depression I say “no” … a lot. More than any other single thought or action, no keeps me in the gap, the dark empty space between spirit and body. I can say no without even thinking about it, without uttering the word, camouflaging it by saying yes to a crutch or coping…

  • Minding the Gap

    Minding the Gap

    Mind the gap, please. If you’ve never ridden the London Underground, you may not be familiar with this phrase. It’s repeated over train platform PA systems at regular intervals, urging passengers to be mindful of the void between platform and train while loading and unloading. I’ve fallen into the gap, the one between spiritual connection…